Classic
Power Player Robert Greene has done it again: written a dazzlingly
smart, addictively readable, historically annotated, lovingly researched,
bracingly unsentimental, eminently practical, refreshingly amoral
(yet not entirely unethical), deliciously dramatic and frequently
titillating handbook for how to get what you want and whom
you want, aggressively yet without force. His first book, The
48 Laws of Power, was a winner in every way, filled with fearless
wisdom and fascinating tales of power and its pursuit throughout history.The
Art Of Seduction carries on the Greene tradition with panache,
remarkable depth and utterly irreverent fun.

As
the saying goes, there are two ways to gain power: 1) through making
people fear you, and 2) through making them love you. . And The
Art Of Seduction focuses on the latter method of power pursuit,
which is far nicer than the former, yet still and all, rather naughty.
The first thing it does is seduce you into not wanting to put it down.

Greene
casts his drama with some of history's greatest seducers, from Cleopatra
to Bill Clinton, and liteature and mythology's consumate lovers--Don
Juan, Venus, Jupiter.

I
wish Greene had included Queen
Esther as one of the Bible's great seductresses. Here was a pious
young woman who used her powers of seduction to charm a decadent old
king into saving her people from genocide.

But
I quibble. The
Art Of Seduction is a masterpiece of the self-help genre, which
I never thought could have a masterpiece. It contains the wisdom of
the ages sifted through a philosophy of romantic pragmatism.

The
Art Of Seduction skillfully draws upon all charms and tempting
wiles of history and mythology's greatest seducers, from Cleopatra
to Bill Clinton, to advise its reader on matters of the heart

I
found myself in agreement with most of Greene major points. For instance,
his chapter Pay Attention to Details echos the First Commandment of
a Lady's Pleasure from my 10
Commandments of Pleasure: Thou Shalt Pay Attention to the Details
of Her Desire. Though my Commandments were published first, I must
admit that Greene's chapter fleshes out this vital point of seduction
and pleasure with even more detail than mine.

Elegant
design by Joost Elffers who also made Greene's Power
book a classic that you want to place on a very special shelf by your
Bible, Pillow Book and Dictionary.

Can
it help you to be a better seducer? Without a doubt. It's wisdom is
based on simple truths: Pay Attention to the Details. Send Mixed Signals.
Mix Pleasure with Pain.

Throw
out all your "How to Pick Up Girls" and "How to Make
a Man Fall in Love with You" books (except mine, of course).
This is the book that you need if you really want to know about the
arts of lust, love and power, which are all bound up in the much-maligned
art of seduction.